Physician and immigrant Arthur J. Cramp joined the American Medical Association at a time when American medicine was professionalizing. Dr. Cramp’s work as a quackbuster helped define what was legitimate medicine by making plain what was not.

Bob Blaskiewicz is Assistant Professor of Critical Thinking and First-Year Studies at Stockton University. He studies conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and other extraordinary claims. He's written for Skeptical Inquirer magazine and has an occasional column, The Conspiracy Guy, at the CSI blog.

Presented at Balticon 53, Baltimore, Maryland, on May 26, 2019

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